Night FlightAfter a tragic crash in the Andes, an airport supervisor must decide whether to continue the "night flights" of the mail. |
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... somewhere else . " " But , Monsieur Robineau , one doesn't choose the place to have it . " " Those are the orders . " The orders , thought Rivière , are like the rites of a religion ; they may look absurd but they shape men in their ...
... somewhere else . " " But , Monsieur Robineau , one doesn't choose the place to have it . " " Those are the orders . " The orders , thought Rivière , are like the rites of a religion ; they may look absurd but they shape men in their ...
Page 58
... Somewhere he would find the solitary clerk on night duty . Somewhere here a man was working that life and energy should persevere and thus the work goes on from post to post that , from Toulouse to Buenos Aires , the chain of flights ...
... Somewhere he would find the solitary clerk on night duty . Somewhere here a man was working that life and energy should persevere and thus the work goes on from post to post that , from Toulouse to Buenos Aires , the chain of flights ...
Page 116
... somewhere out of space and out of time , and at the radio station phantom hands were tracing a word or two on this white paper . Had the fuel run out already or was the pilot , before catastrophe , playing his last card : 116 COMMODORO ...
... somewhere out of space and out of time , and at the radio station phantom hands were tracing a word or two on this white paper . Had the fuel run out already or was the pilot , before catastrophe , playing his last card : 116 COMMODORO ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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